People · United States
Gautam Medabalmi
3×3 · top 8.7% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2023 · 2023MEDA01
Gautam Medabalmi has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.41, set at Lopes Up AZ 2025, puts him in the top 8.7% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 4,858th in the United States. Until February 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 6 competitions since March 2023, he has put 120 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one, steadier than 59% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 13.27 in December 2023 to 10.41, a 22% improvement. Gautam has entered six competitions, more competitions than 86% of everyone who has ever competed.
Standing, event by event
vs everyone ever ranked| Event | PB single | PB average | All-time standing | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3×3 | 10.41 | 14.08 | top 8.7% | 4,858 / 60,666 | |
| 2×2 | 2.79 | 4.26 | top 12.0% | 4,791 / 41,674 | |
| 3×3 one-handed | 25.42 | 31.99 | top 35.4% | 4,742 / 15,900 | |
| Skewb | 7.56 | 9.97 | top 38.0% | 6,598 / 19,164 | |
| 4×4 | 1:08.45 | 1:19.60 | top 45.4% | 7,651 / 19,354 | |
| 5×5 | 3:03.29 | — | early days — 2 solves | 7,295 / 9,537 |
Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.
The line so far
Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.
The story so far
- 27 Jan 2024Four personal bests in one day at Prescott Cubing Winter 2024.
- 18 Mar 2023First competition: Bay Area Speedcubin' 42 2023.
Competitions
- Lopes Up AZ 2026 · 8 Feb 2026
- Lopes Up AZ 2025 · 15 Feb 2025 — 2 personal bests set
- Bring the Heat AZ 2024 · 15 Jun 2024 — 2 personal bests set
- Prescott Cubing Winter 2024 · 27 Jan 2024 — 4 personal bests set
- Phoenix Cubing Open 2023 · 10 Dec 2023 — 1 personal best set
- Bay Area Speedcubin' 42 2023 · 18 Mar 2023
Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.
The circuit
The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.
- TJ Hayward — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead 5 times
- Parker Reed — met in 23 rounds, finished ahead 4 times
- Jeremy Bulambot — met in 21 rounds, never finished ahead
Next targets
- A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,606 people have one; it is 0.41 away.
- A sub-2 2×2 single — 9,039 people have one; it is 0.79 away.
Targets move as he improves.